The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia
By Derek Waller.
Description
On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers―recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India―who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years.Derek Waller presents ...
ISBN(s)
0813191009, 9780813191003
